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Salary: USD 161,000 - 218,000 / annual
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. The company's core offering is the Celonis Context Model, which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can understand. Celonis serves world-leading companies and operates a global ecosystem of partners.
You will join the Query Engine and Core Mining teams, working alongside experienced ex-FAANG engineers dedicated to developing state-of-the-art technology. The team creates foundational solutions including a mining engine that enables customers to interactively execute process mining over enterprise-sized data sets, as well as innovative object-centric modeling tools for process-oriented business analysis. The company is heavily investing in performance and scalability to handle strong customer growth and ensure the platform scales efficiently in a multi-cloud environment.
In this role, you will develop and implement new features and algorithms for the core engine, increasing reliability and performance of existing components. Your responsibilities include:
- Identify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, or distributed data processing algorithms in the Core Mining Engine
- Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
- Deal with issues from logical representations of the execution plan to efficient resource management, down to highly parallel vectorized execution
- Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever-growing request rate on the database
- Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture
- Mentor and grow teammates, set an example through your work
- Recognize and take action to improve the developer work environment
- Write clean, understandable, and testable code
- Provide feedback on designs and code of peers
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Document development procedures, concepts, and knowledge
- Build, launch, and maintain features in production
- Help define a fun and inclusive engineering culture
The company offers equity (RSUs with merit-based refresh grants), comprehensive benefits including health, dental, life insurance, 401k, and paid time off. Additional perks include 24 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary carers, unlimited PTO in applicable regions, flexible hybrid work, subsidized wellness memberships, mental health counseling, annual Impact Days for volunteering, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
REQUIREMENTS:
- BS in Computer Science; Masters or Ph.D. preferred
- 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Significant background in database internals or building core components (query optimization, query execution, storage engines, transaction processing) for large-scale data processing systems (e.g., Starrocks, ClickHouse, etc.)
- Experienced in programming with C++ (17)
- Analytical mind with good understanding of complex data structures and algorithms in data management
- Curiosity about how things work and desire to improve them
